/lit/ - Literature

Let's talk about our favorite literary scandals. I'll start: William S. Burroughs accidentally shooting his wife in the face during a party in Mexico.

how the fuck did he not kill himself?

>>19800489
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>>18261841
>One of the best living authors
Agreed. The problem with Murakami is that he's uneven. Wind-Up Bird and Sheep Chase are masterpieces, things like Sputnik or After Dark are not in its league. Murakami-bashers dwell on the weak books, but the few strong ones are very strong.

Post your favorite writer at their most /fa/

Post your favorite writers at their most /fa/

Post writers being fashionable or just being in style. Talk about your fashion sense and what you wear on a daily.

Why do you guys hate him so much?

On the atmosphere of Mexico City, Burroughs remarked:

>This is basically an oriental culture (80% Indian) where everyone has mastered the art of minding his own business. If a man wants to wear a monocle or carry a cane he does not hesitate to do it and no one gives him a second glance. Boys and young men walk down the street arm in arm and no one pays them any mind. It is not that people here don’t care what other’s think. It simply would not occur to a Mexican to expect criticism from a stranger, nor would it occur to anyone to criticize the behavior of others.
>—William S. Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg, 1 May 1950, The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945 to 1959, 69

Sounds like paradise desu

Who are some /fa/ writers?

>>14752315
My man Burroughs. Read junkie.

Who are some writers who have killed? Pic related is the obvious one

>>14028059
You would probably like everything in my favorites.
>>14028069
>How was the Anatomy of Melancholy?
It's incredibly long and dense, so I'm not finished, but I read at least a little every day, and I've read (and reread, and reread) all of the best known highlights. It's hilarious and cathartic and mournful and imaginative and beautiful. Also very influential on later literature, but always discreetly so, and I frequently find that that another adulated author is a Burtonian. I've been shilling it here a lot.
>>14028117
How is Vanity Fair? I'm trying reading Pilgrim's Progress again; are you aware that Thackeray got the title from there?
>>14028122
Your books don't seem to match one another?
>>14028153
Rabelais because Quixote.
>>14028175
If Brave New World is a favorite you need to read Doors of the Perception and Heaven and Hell as primers and then read Island as Huxley's response to Brave New World.

Who's the William Burroughs of today?

>be this guy
>faggot
>years of heroin suppresed his libido
>figured he'd shack up with a junky roastie and run away to Mexico with her to avoid getting thrown into a hick concentration camp with Bubba
>ran out of drugs while in Mexico
>roastie probably became insufferable while going through amphetamine withdrawals
>faggot got his libido back after kicking the junk
>started craving cock again
>decided to get rid roastie by shooting her in the head
>blamed it "muh little drinking game"
>arrested but bribed mexican cops and eventually ran across the border back to the states
>never set foot a prison again
>literally got away with murder
>later said this event made him Kickstart his writing career to repell a demon that was trying to possess him

Goddamn Burroughs was handsome